US Patent Application 17824714. TESTING USING LABELLED RECORDED ALERTS simplified abstract

TESTING USING LABELLED RECORDED ALERTS

Organization Name

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC==Inventor(s)==

[[Category:Ron Moshe Marciano of Ashqelon (IL)]]

TESTING USING LABELLED RECORDED ALERTS - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17824714 titled 'TESTING USING LABELLED RECORDED ALERTS

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes a computer-based method for testing software using recorded alerts.

• The recorded alerts contain information about previous events that caused the software to fail, along with a label indicating if the alert was accurate.
• The method automatically applies the testing inputs from the recorded alerts to the software being tested.
• The software is then checked for any faults that may arise as a result of applying the testing inputs.
• This eliminates the need for testers to manually come up with testing inputs, as they are obtained from the recorded alerts.

Original Abstract Submitted

Computer-implemented testing of subject software using labelled recorded alerts. Each of the labelled recorded alerts specifies one or more testing inputs representing one or more events that previously led to prior software when the alert occurred, and a label indicating whether the alert was a true positive. For each labelled recorded alerts, testing of the subject software is automatically performed by 1) reading the one or more testing inputs of the associated labelled recorded alert, 2) applying the read one or more testing inputs to the subject software, and 3) determining whether a fault arises as a result of the application of the read one or more conditions to the subject software. Thus, a tester did not themselves need to come up with testing inputs to apply. Instead, such testing inputs were automatically obtained from labelled data of prior recorded alerts.